SAN JOSE, Calif. — Nick Lima scored his second goal of the season, David Bingham had his sixth shutout and the San Jose Earthquakes hung on to beat the Colorado Rapids 1-0 on Saturday night.

“Well it was obviously a difficult result,” Rapids coach Pablo Mastroeni said. “The first half we were quite bright and really forced the game in a lot of different ways. Good shape behind the ball, didn’t give up too many chances, created one or two decent looks on goal. In the second half, we were poor with the ball, passing on a lot of responsibility when we passed it to teammates and in doing so, lost the ball in bad spots and found ourselves in a real transition game in the second half.”

San Jose (8-9-5) snapped a three-game losing streak with its first win since July 1.

Lima scored in the 58th minute off assists by Darwin Ceren and Shea Salinas. Salinas’ corner kick found Ceren at the top of the box and he headed a pass to a waiting Lima. Lima trapped the pass and drilled the ball into the net from about 27 yards.

Jim Gensheimer, Bay Area News Group

Earthquakes defender Nick Lima (24) got the only goal in San Jose’s 1-0 victory over Colorado at Avaya Stadium.

“In the second half, we kind of shot ourselves in the foot,” Rapids defender Jared Watts said. “With the ball itself, too, going forward we need to just take better care of it. We kind of invited a little bit of pressure on ourselves. We need to clean some things up, but it’s a quick turnaround. We’ve got to move on now. We’re desperate for points, we’ve got a home game next so we’re going to be focused and ready for Vancouver [Whitecaps FC].”

After the match, Mastroeni voiced his displeasure with the refereeing.

“Two stonewall penalties in the second half that would have changed the game for the good and they weren’t called and that’s how it goes,” Mastroeni said. “When you’re on the road, 1-0 late in the game like that, the chance to get a couple PKs is what you’re kind of playing for. In the end, it wasn’t the case.”

Colorado was outshot 15-8 overall and had just two shots on target. The Rapids (6-12-2) are winless over their last three matches, and are 0-8-1 on the road this season.

“It’s never panic time. It’s about staying the course and going back to work on Monday,” Mastroeni said. “There’s no panic. You can’t affect this last game, you can only affect the next game and what you want is a good response at home and getting after it. But nothing good happens when you panic. You’ve got to stay the course steady, come in every day, work hard, make better decisions with the ball, be a bit more brave with the ball and I think your fortunes will change. But tonight we didn’t make enough plays and that was it.”

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